Quotes About Ephemeral

We're only immortal for a limited time.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

Time burns but leaves no ashes.

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

Time is a perishable commodity.

moments bleed together, no span to time

The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

I knew that it wouldn't last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.

Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.

It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I've never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.

We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

Time, like a flurry of wild rain, Shall drift across the darkened pane!

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.